Polaroid 35mm instant slide system

yes, a special polaroid film. I doubt you could get it any more. After shooting, you put it thru a little processor that polaroid sold - all done in daylight. Of course you had to mount the slides. From what I recall, there was b&w as well as color slide film.
 
from what it shown in 'instant film photography', Polaroid made three 35mm instant slides

1) Polapan CT - B&W rated at ISO 125

2) Polachrome CS - Colour slide rated at ISO 40 (additive colour slide film

3) Polagraph HC - B&W with a very high contrast similar to Lith film. Rated ISO 400

All instant slides where developed using the Autoprocessor which was a mini hand cranked developer to which you poured the chemicals into. Instant slides took around 5min to process

Much like Polavision im not sure if it was a great hit....im not sure if you can still get it...i doubt it though
 
the Polapan B&W was a special film, with an "typical" special grain. Unfortunately it is no more in production. Together with the Agfa Scala is a big loss for my taste...
rob
 
I used the Polapan and loved it. It was not cheap. There were two processors, IIRC; the manual with hand crank, and a motorized version.
 
Polaroid 35mm slide trannys

Polaroid 35mm slide trannys

I was very lucky to have a family member working for the company here in Australia , I used the whole range with the electric and manual processer , it's fast to do but great care must be taken not to scratch the film , it's very delicate , the 40ASA stock has great colour , it loves blue , great for the beach , the high contrast B/W is very hard to work with , it's allmost litho , so a spot meter is needed , very easy to overexpose the skin in the face , Polaroid are back but they will never bring this stuff back , I dont know of any product by any other makers that is slow high contrast in that way .
 
I've seen Polaroid instant slide film and processing contraptions sell for good money on eBay. I guess it has a cult following of some sort. As I understand it doing E6 at home is easier than it was in the past, so that's probably a more practical route.
 
Pickett Wilson said:
I tried it back in the day, but the color was strange.
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I played with it when it came out. The color was indeed "strange" in comparison to modern color films. It bore some similarity to the antique Autochromes, though it had a linear rather than random filter pattern more like that of the process developed by Robert Krayn.

The film had a series of linear filters for each of the three RGB colors in front of a B&W light sensitive emulsion. Processing left the filters in place. The slides were darker looking when projected, as if the projector had a dimmer lamp or slower lens. Printing times were 1-2 stops longer than with conventional films.
 
These films are no longer available. In the day, they were a boon for technical slide presentations. The BW material was "special".

yours
FPJ
 
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Phil Ashbrook said:
I was very lucky to have a family member working for the company here in Australia , I used the whole range with the electric and manual processer , it's fast to do but great care must be taken not to scratch the film , it's very delicate , the 40ASA stock has great colour , it loves blue , great for the beach , the high contrast B/W is very hard to work with , it's allmost litho , so a spot meter is needed , very easy to overexpose the skin in the face , Polaroid are back but they will never bring this stuff back , I dont know of any product by any other makers that is slow high contrast in that way .
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Awful font.
 
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